Chapter 1Brief summary of the novelsThe "Golden Notebook" by Doris Lessing is a speculative fiction that deals with the mental and social breakdown of the protagonist Anna Wulf, and the depicted as well as his loved ones. the realistic life of his partner Molly Jacobs. During her life, Anna wrote four notebooks: a black one, which recorded her experiences before and after the World War; a red one where she writes about her membership in the Communist Party; The yellow notebook is a storehouse of his emotional life, containing the end of his painful love story; and finally the Blue Notebook is a personal journal made up of his dreams, his memories and his life in general. Golden notebook. The novel is set in 1957 London and gives an in-depth analysis of communism and the women's liberation movements. The most important theme of the novel, highlighted by the author herself, is the fragmentation and division of her life, represented by the four diaries. This fragmentation is also visible in society. Anna's rigorous attempts to collect everything in the golden notebook are indicative of her intolerable mental breakdown and overcoming fragmentation and madness. Sethe, the main protagonist of “Beloved,” attempts to kill all of her children in a desperate attempt to save them from slavery and the miseries that come with it. In the process, she is only able to kill one of her children, whose tombstone later reads Beloved. Her sons, Howard and Buglar, run away from their home in Cincinnati at the age of 13, and Denver, her daughter, is shy and friendless because of the obsessive activities going on in their home. Later, the family meets a young woman who calls herself Beloved. Sethe is greatly charmed by the woman and believes that Beloved is an act... middle of paper ... spaces that the reader must enter to work with Morrison in the narrative. She also mentions that by piecing together the main characters' fragmented stories, we participate in their different strategies of resistance to cultural domination and their struggles with concepts of love, identity, and meaning. Fulton, Lara Mary, "An unblinking eye: Readerly response-ability and racial reconstructions in Toni Morrison's 'The Bluest Eye' and 'Beloved' (1997). Theses and dissertations (full). Article 4. http://scholars. wlu.ca/etd/4 FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS IN BELOVEDAccording to many scholars who have written extensively about racism in their works, Beloved is full of broken families, orphans, and dysfunctional relationships. Slavery meant the separation of families from the very beginning. younger age Sethe is too possessive of her children and Paul D is hesitant to love.